Re: Official BEST TREK EXPERIENCE Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 3:10 am
Who, me? <bewildered expression, looking around for escape>
Uh... um... Okay, so about the poll at the start of this thread... <stall them! buy some time>
I voted for Kirk and Janeway as best Captains, even though on technical merits Picard probably beats out Janeway. I just couldn't force myself to pull the Picard lever because Picard, for all his brilliance, allowed Leslie Crusher to set foot on his ship and did not shove him out an airlock at the earliest opportunity as he so richly deserved. So Janeway gets the nod, even if she *didn't* space Neelix. At least Neelix had a hot wife.
<stunned silence as they learn just how shallow I really am. Start edging for the exit>
Um, been fun. Gotta go. <door slams in face. no escape. must come clean>
Okay. Yeah. About this best trek experience. Well, you see, it's like this... I'm not really a trekkie. <ducks and cringes, expecting barrage of shoes>
When TOS was on, I sort of casually watched it, but it must have competed in a time slot with something else my parents liked, 'cause I don't remember getting to see it much. When it came out in reruns years later, I watched it, and I sort of casually watched TNG when that came out. I thought Data was cool, but Leslie Crusher gave me a rash, and I didn't much care for Riker, and Whoopee Goldberg (Guinine, or something like that?) was... was... words fail me. I never watched DS9 or Voyager or Enterprise when they were on the air, either. In fact, didn't watch much TV at all, really. And I've never been to a Trek convention or put on a pair of Vulcan ears or bought a phaser or trek action figure.
So I'm not a trekkie, or a... a... whatever you call Star Wars fans (a warrie?). I'm a fan of science fiction in general. Started with Tom Swift books as a kid and haven't looked back. Heinlein, Asimov, Clark, Sturgeon, et. al.
Eventually, through the miracle of bittorrent, I obtained all seven seasons of Voyager, and watched them on my computer. A one hour TV episode is perfect for a Sales Engineer collapsed on the bed of his hotel room after a long day. (A movie can be too long if your tired.) Then I watched DS9. Then other sci fi series I missed. (SG1, SG Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica (new one), Babylon 5, Dark Angel, Sara Connor Chronicles, and Farscape) A friend gave me season one of Enterprise on DVD, and I was hooked. Despite the usual star trek silliness, it's still my favorite trek. There are NO holodecks. NO touchy-feely Ship's Councilors, NO kids or civilians on board. The technology was more primitive and didn't always work. And there was Trip and T'Pol, whose relationship was abused and mangled and mishandled in just about every way possible by the ham-fisted, clueless, brain-dead writers, producers, and whatever else you call all the people responsible for creating and airing a show. The writers blew it, but there was undeniably chemistry between those two characters. It was that chemistry, and my anger at how their potential had been wasted, that led me to this site. And the rest is history.
Sorry, no greatest trek experience to relate. Certainly nothing like Panyasan graced us with.
Cogito, you're up! <runs for exit>
Uh... um... Okay, so about the poll at the start of this thread... <stall them! buy some time>
I voted for Kirk and Janeway as best Captains, even though on technical merits Picard probably beats out Janeway. I just couldn't force myself to pull the Picard lever because Picard, for all his brilliance, allowed Leslie Crusher to set foot on his ship and did not shove him out an airlock at the earliest opportunity as he so richly deserved. So Janeway gets the nod, even if she *didn't* space Neelix. At least Neelix had a hot wife.
<stunned silence as they learn just how shallow I really am. Start edging for the exit>
Um, been fun. Gotta go. <door slams in face. no escape. must come clean>
Okay. Yeah. About this best trek experience. Well, you see, it's like this... I'm not really a trekkie. <ducks and cringes, expecting barrage of shoes>
When TOS was on, I sort of casually watched it, but it must have competed in a time slot with something else my parents liked, 'cause I don't remember getting to see it much. When it came out in reruns years later, I watched it, and I sort of casually watched TNG when that came out. I thought Data was cool, but Leslie Crusher gave me a rash, and I didn't much care for Riker, and Whoopee Goldberg (Guinine, or something like that?) was... was... words fail me. I never watched DS9 or Voyager or Enterprise when they were on the air, either. In fact, didn't watch much TV at all, really. And I've never been to a Trek convention or put on a pair of Vulcan ears or bought a phaser or trek action figure.
So I'm not a trekkie, or a... a... whatever you call Star Wars fans (a warrie?). I'm a fan of science fiction in general. Started with Tom Swift books as a kid and haven't looked back. Heinlein, Asimov, Clark, Sturgeon, et. al.
Eventually, through the miracle of bittorrent, I obtained all seven seasons of Voyager, and watched them on my computer. A one hour TV episode is perfect for a Sales Engineer collapsed on the bed of his hotel room after a long day. (A movie can be too long if your tired.) Then I watched DS9. Then other sci fi series I missed. (SG1, SG Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica (new one), Babylon 5, Dark Angel, Sara Connor Chronicles, and Farscape) A friend gave me season one of Enterprise on DVD, and I was hooked. Despite the usual star trek silliness, it's still my favorite trek. There are NO holodecks. NO touchy-feely Ship's Councilors, NO kids or civilians on board. The technology was more primitive and didn't always work. And there was Trip and T'Pol, whose relationship was abused and mangled and mishandled in just about every way possible by the ham-fisted, clueless, brain-dead writers, producers, and whatever else you call all the people responsible for creating and airing a show. The writers blew it, but there was undeniably chemistry between those two characters. It was that chemistry, and my anger at how their potential had been wasted, that led me to this site. And the rest is history.
Sorry, no greatest trek experience to relate. Certainly nothing like Panyasan graced us with.
Cogito, you're up! <runs for exit>